Jackson Pollock cigarette retouch
example · Christopher Hitchens ·
retold in 3 talks
The US Post Office removed a cigarette from a photo of Jackson Pollock, illustrating a Stalinist-style fear of 'excessive enjoyment' or intensity.
As told 2
“years later, retouch, the cigarette disappeared. It's as if it's too much. It's too much this intensity of enjoyment.”
“The cigarette was like in Stalinist retouching, the cigarette disappeared.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
contents · one story, 3 jobsuses
repulsion as defense against excessive enjoyment
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tolerance as intolerance
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X without X
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Its cast and sources
populated by
Michelle Pfeiffer1Daniel Day-Lewis1Audrey Hepburn1Shirley MacLaine1Gerhard Richter1William Wyler1Anatoly Lunacharsky1Eva Marie Saint1
alongside works
Every retelling 2
1:34:30 Vintage Slavoj Zizek Predicts the Future Need for the Phantasmic Guise #web3 #reality #crypto2004-06-08 · 1:56:12
The US Post Office removed a cigarette from a photo of Jackson Pollock, illustrating a Stalinist-style fear of 'excessive enjoyment' or intensity., illustrating repulsion as defense against excessive enjoyment
A postage stamp bearing Pollock's portrait with a cigarette later had the cigarette digitally removed, a practice Žižek compares to Stalinist photo-retouching. Used to illustrate the ideological obsession with anti-smoking that goes beyond public health into a new moralism., illustrating ideology in everyday life,controlled enjoyment